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Sue Perb wrote:Can anyone tell me why posts refer to Pelligrini as the 'Count?'

I guess it's due to his demeanour, his aristocratic ways...I had never heard the nickname here in Spain, but I find it funny and appropiate...

Equilibrista wrote:

Sue Perb wrote:Can anyone tell me why posts refer to Pelligrini as the 'Count?'

I guess it's due to his demeanour, his aristocratic ways...I had never heard the nickname here in Spain, but I find it funny and appropiate...

We found a picture of Count Dracula from an old movie that looks like him.

Guys thanks for the prompt replies and suggestions, much appreciated!

Slim wrote:

Equilibrista wrote:

Sue Perb wrote:Can anyone tell me why posts refer to Pelligrini as the 'Count?'

I guess it's due to his demeanour, his aristocratic ways...I had never heard the nickname here in Spain, but I find it funny and appropiate...

We found a picture of Count Dracula from an old movie that looks like him.

'The Engineer' didn't quite sound right in English anyway!

Alrite Fellas

Just joined the site but been reading post via my mobile for about 2 months. Been supporting City since about 1996, although I only started going games in 2000. Just got me and my son a season ticket for this season, wanted to get one last season but I didn't as I was in Afghanistan so there was no point. Couldn't believe it when we got took over in 2008 as I was just expecting another mediocre season at best. Really looking forward to this season and I really do think that we will get the title back.

In a bit Fellas
CTID

Hi everyone,

Been following the site for the past year, started supporting city when my dad first started taking me to Maine road in the mid 90s. Not the best time to be a city fan but that didn't matter to me, will be a blue forever now! Think we're well set up for a fantastic season, hopefully a few more trophies, but I loved city before the trophies and ill love them whatever!

Looking forward to getting involved in some debates! Think you run a great site which keeps me entertained!

Speak to you soon!

clippo22 wrote:Hi everyone,

Been following the site for the past year, started supporting city when my dad first started taking me to Maine road in the mid 90s. Not the best time to be a city fan but that didn't matter to me, will be a blue forever now! Think we're well set up for a fantastic season, hopefully a few more trophies, but I loved city before the trophies and ill love them whatever!

Looking forward to getting involved in some debates! Think you run a great site which keeps me entertained!

Speak to you soon!

Bloody dreadful time. Awful. Appalling. At the time we were driving up 320 miles and back every match as ST holders. The only consolations were that we were all in it together and, as I told my children (now grown up), one day the great City would be back.

Luckily I was right in the end.

Hello my old friends, and the young un's,I can't remember the last time I posted on here, must be a few years,
So I thought I'd re introduce myself, 2 more kids later I'm back, no longer a Cabbie either, just Daddy Day Care for me,
Hope your all well
Speak again Soon
And hope to turn up at the Townley with my eldest real soon.

Crazy_Cabbie wrote:Hello my old friends, and the young un's,I can't remember the last time I posted on here, must be a few years,
So I thought I'd re introduce myself, 2 more kids later I'm back, no longer a Cabbie either, just Daddy Day Care for me,
Hope your all well
Speak again Soon
And hope to turn up at the Townley with my eldest real soon.

Welcome back mate!

Crazy_Cabbie wrote:Hello my old friends, and the young un's,I can't remember the last time I posted on here, must be a few years,
So I thought I'd re introduce myself, 2 more kids later I'm back, no longer a Cabbie either, just Daddy Day Care for me,
Hope your all well
Speak again Soon
And hope to turn up at the Townley with my eldest real soon.

So being honest,you're now just plain and simply Crazy then.....:-)
Welcome HOME Daz...and hows that handsome lad of yours...grown up by now.

Crazy_Cabbie wrote:Hello my old friends, and the young un's,I can't remember the last time I posted on here, must be a few years,
So I thought I'd re introduce myself, 2 more kids later I'm back, no longer a Cabbie either, just Daddy Day Care for me,
Hope your all well
Speak again Soon
And hope to turn up at the Townley with my eldest real soon.

So being honest,you're now just plain and simply Crazy then.....:-)
Welcome HOME Daz...and hows that handsome lad of yours...grown up by now.

Crazy_Cabbie wrote:Hello my old friends, and the young un's,I can't remember the last time I posted on here, must be a few years,
So I thought I'd re introduce myself, 2 more kids later I'm back, no longer a Cabbie either, just Daddy Day Care for me,
Hope your all well
Speak again Soon
And hope to turn up at the Townley with my eldest real soon.

Hope you're sticking around mate, you've been missed.

Good to see you back cabbie man.

Crazy_Cabbie wrote:Hello my old friends, and the young un's,I can't remember the last time I posted on here, must be a few years,
So I thought I'd re introduce myself, 2 more kids later I'm back, no longer a Cabbie either, just Daddy Day Care for me,
Hope your all well
Speak again Soon
And hope to turn up at the Townley with my eldest real soon.

Daddy Day Care..... just say the work and the cabbie is gone!

Crazy Day Care

Crazy_Cabbie wrote:Hello my old friends, and the young un's,I can't remember the last time I posted on here, must be a few years,
So I thought I'd re introduce myself, 2 more kids later I'm back, no longer a Cabbie either, just Daddy Day Care for me,
Hope your all well
Speak again Soon
And hope to turn up at the Townley with my eldest real soon.

That was a long fare mate, welcome home!

Always liked the CC, joined up (again) around the same time as myself.

Wait-One, has he posted since?

No!

The fuclin let down

HEY CALLUM...GET HIM SORTED.

Hi All

I have been reading the posts on here for a while as a guest and wondering whether to make myself ‘official’ and I suppose the day after an emphatic derby win is as good a time as any to take the plunge. Whatever the actual league positions bring, we seem to have the measure of the reds on a head-to-head basis now, having won 4 out of the last 5 league meetings.

I have been a city supporter since the late sixties at school. There is no history of following football in our family before me, so it was just one of those things you had to choose in the playground – Beatles or Monkeys, City or United. I chose the Beatles and City, the latter I think because I preferred blue.

I can remember the 69 cup final on TV, and my first game was a draw at home to Everton, probably in 1974, with school friends on the Glossop Carriage Company football special coach. I didn’t become a regular though until I started work in August 1980 and got my first season ticket in the Kippax, when programmes were still 30p.

It was a dull first full season: Allison sacked and replaced by Bond in October, Allison returns in January for the FA Cup with Palace and is beaten 4-0 on the way to relegation, a thumping 6-0 win over JB’s previous club Norwich 6-0, also in the cup, followed by League Cup SF defeat by Liverpool (I still can’t believe Kevin Reeves' goal was disallowed), FA Cup SF at Villa Park, Tommy Hutch scoring for both sides in the Final, and the heartbreak of losing the replay, despite Steve McKenzie’s wonder goal. I consoled myself that we would be back soon to win it, and sure enough, 30 years later I was proved right.

I have been a season ticket holder ever since, now in East Stand 204, and could bore you for days with memories, but will leave it for now,

All the best

That's a great first post! Welcome mate!